A comprehensive assessment of the African presence in early Europe would be incomplete without a study of the African presences and cultural influences in the regions called England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Scandinavia. Sister Tarika Lewis just sent me an image of St. Patrick. She asked me if I thought that it was Africoid and my response was that it was inconclusive.
But it is not out of place to think of Africans in early Ireland. This data is consistent with our knowledge of the "African sea-rovers, the Formorians, who had a stronghold on Tory Island, off the Northwest Coast," and who came to be regarded as the "sinister forces in Irish mythology." This was reported by Seaumas MacManus on page two of The Story of the Irish Race published in New York by Devin-Adair in 1921. It would be an interesting subject to research.
The Fomorians, shrouded deep in mystery, are held to be the "sinister forces" in Irish mythology who interrningled with, and later fought, the Tautha De Danaan. The struggle was for the possession of Ireland itself, with the Africans apparently coming out on the losing side. Whatever the case, in the religious mythos of the land we find the goddess Anu, one of Ireland's great ancestor deities. Anu may have been the same as Aine, an early sun-goddess, or Danu, the greatest of the goddesses of Irish antiquity and the ruler of the Tautha De Danaan. At any rate, the Irish Anu was a force of prosperity and abundance-so much so that two breast-shaped mountains in western lreland are called, in her name, the "paps of Anu.”
Now, the Kamites of the historic epoch called their immediate predecessors the Anu, "of which the Anu Seti were the inhabitants of Nubia who lived on the banks of the Nile.“ It should be noted also that the term "Anu" was generally applied to the early inhabitants of Libya, who were called the Anu-Tehennu.
Godfrey Higgins, the distinguished nineteenth century antiquarian, made an attempt to correlate the deities of the British Isles, and particularly Ireland, with the deities of the Mediterranean, especially early Greece, or Hellas, and Phoenicia. In this case, Neith was identified with an Irish goddess called Nath. This is not as far fetched as it may sound and there is firm reason to suggest an African presence in ancient lreland.
A comprehensive assessment of the African presence in early Europe would be incomplete without a study of the African presences and cultural influences in the regions called England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Scandinavia. Sister Tarika Lewis just sent me an image of St. Patrick. She asked me if I thought that it was Africoid and my response was that it was inconclusive.
ReplyDeleteBut it is not out of place to think of Africans in early Ireland. This data is consistent with our knowledge of the "African sea-rovers, the Formorians, who had a stronghold on Tory Island, off the Northwest Coast," and who came to be regarded as the "sinister forces in Irish mythology." This was reported by Seaumas MacManus on page two of The Story of the Irish Race published in New York by Devin-Adair in 1921. It would be an interesting subject to research.
The Fomorians, shrouded deep in mystery, are held to be the "sinister forces" in Irish mythology who interrningled with, and later fought, the Tautha De Danaan. The struggle was for the possession of Ireland itself, with the Africans apparently coming out on the losing side. Whatever the case, in the religious mythos of the land we find the goddess Anu, one of Ireland's great ancestor deities. Anu may have been the same as Aine, an early sun-goddess, or Danu, the greatest of the goddesses of Irish antiquity and the ruler of the Tautha De Danaan. At any rate, the Irish Anu was a force of prosperity and abundance-so much so that two breast-shaped mountains in western lreland are called, in her name, the "paps of Anu.”
Now, the Kamites of the historic epoch called their immediate predecessors the Anu, "of which the Anu Seti were the inhabitants of Nubia who lived on the banks of the Nile.“ It should be noted also that the term "Anu" was generally applied to the early inhabitants of Libya, who were called the Anu-Tehennu.
Godfrey Higgins, the distinguished nineteenth century antiquarian, made an attempt to correlate the deities of the British Isles, and particularly Ireland, with the deities of the Mediterranean, especially early Greece, or Hellas, and Phoenicia. In this case, Neith was identified with an Irish goddess called Nath. This is not as far fetched as it may sound and there is firm reason to suggest an African presence in ancient lreland.